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Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The nerdy boomers built computers as we know them.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    As we knew them, not as we know them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    You know what I mean.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But you don't know what I mean. Computers as most people know them now are tablets and cell phones. I blame X and the elder millennials for that.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Computers filled rooms back when the boomers (and earlier gens) were creating them, so even a desktop isn't how they were known then. But it laid the groundwork.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Was Franklin laying the groundwork for computers as we know them when he discovered electricity? You have to cut things off somewhere for a statement like that.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's like saying that nerdy millenials invented mRNA vaccines. A very small percentage of the population worked on them while the rest weren't even aware they existed for most of that time.

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